The point is there is no point.

Black and White

February 4, 2009

What I like about black and white photographs are that they show true beauty. There are no colors to distract you: you focus in on what’s really there. And aside from that you start to notice the flaws too in peoples skin or sometimes how one eye is bigger than the other and that to me makes it more beautiful.

Like this photo by J. Borodina. There is so much emotion and life to the photo without any color.

The above photo is by one of favorite photographers.

And I think by far my favorite is the newest cover of W with Brad Pitt on it, it was photographed by the lovely Chuck Close. He uses what is called a daguerreotype style.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
-Hunter S. Thompson (The Rum Diary)